So I read the FAQ and some threads about losing fat/gaining muscle at the same time and from what I got, it's pick one.

I want to end up around 10% body fat, so I have a ways to go (I'm at 26.2% right now, tested with a BodyMetrix). At my current macros I'm losing roughly 1.7lbs per week (which should prevent me from losing muscle).

The thing is that I weigh train 3 days a week with a personal trainer (focusing on power lifting, with tons of other stuff mixed in). I just hit a PR in deadlift at 345, but I want to keep making progress. If I eat to lose weight, is it 100% that I won't be gaining any muscle? Wish I could have it both ways!

I'm in my first year of supervised, regularly scheduled training. Measurements/etc are in my flair.

FWIW I set up my Ketogains Calculator and put all the good stuff into MFP and I'm tracking everything to keep my caloric intake in the Lose Fat range. After lifting I have a shake with creatine, L-glutamine, BCAAs, whey protein isolate and coffee. I lift first thing in the morning at 5am doing sets of 70-80% single rep max, with a lift to failure every week or two, but my training handles most of that. Before I started ketogains I had been doing the SCD (although I've done keto before) but the cheat days were killing my weight loss. During that time I noticed fairly significant gains as far as muscle and tone, but my weight stayed roughly the same.

I also do SoulCycle 3 days a week, which is basically a HIIT spin class.

Not sure how much of a difference this makes, but I got a DNA test and I have two pairs of the ACTN3 genotype.

I'm going to keep lifting/HIIT either way, but I'm just hoping I can make gains and lose fat at the same time, but it sounds like the answer to that is no.

TL;DR I am trying to build muscle/strength and lose fat at the same time, is it possible? Small gains are ok

It's REALLY hard to serve 2 masters. I work out while im losing weight not so much to gain muscle but to maintain what i have so I dont lose muscle mass. I have roughly a 50% caloric deficit while doing LCHF diet so building muscle with that little calories is nigh impossible regardless of what diet I would be doing

My overall bench, squat, curl, etc. has stayed roughly the same. I try to gain more but its just not happening when im eating so few calories.

Been writing code full time for nearly 20 years, teaching at Art Center for over 3. I work for a social fundraising platform called Crowdrise, we're actually hiring full-stack PHP developers, so feel free to reach out about that as well.

i'm more looking at the resources you'd direct your students to to learn real CS and engineering principals. I oftentimes have people i've declined for jobs call and ask what they can improve. Overwhelmingly it is due to the fact that they simply have only ever done just that...pulled apart code, worked on side projects, etc. but don't know formal concepts such as prototypical inheritance, variable hoisting, closures, singletons, object oriented programming basics like encapsulation, traditional design patterns such as AMD or MVC, etc. They basically have a functional real world knowledge, but no real CS knowledge. I feel many "learn to be a webdev" tracks skip all of these more abstract principles and jump right into pulling apart existing code and then pushing them out into the world. When they ask where to learn these things, I usually direct them to a stack of reading that is somewhat dry, i'm looking for some more interesting resources to provide on request so they stop becoming hacks and become actual engineers =)

While it's true that just reading about concepts won't teach you how to be a developer, simply building things and learning a language does not either

For that you really need to read or take a class about it. That being said, when you learn design patterns you'll frequently recognize them from things you've already been doing. A good book for PHP is PHP Objects, Patterns and Practice by Zandstra.

That is a radish that's gone to seed. I have one in my garden right now. You can actually pick those little pods when they're bigger and eat them. Radish flavored peas. I pickle them, so do other folks:

I used to slouch like crazy, but about 4 years ago I switched to a standing desk. It has helped my posture immensely. It also has the added benefit of burning more calories. Another interesting thing is that I never feel sleepy after a big lunch when I go back to my standing desk.